Description
A circa 1880’s Mother of Pearl fan with double black silk leaf painted with a Spanish scene of a couple out for a stroll, the lady wearing a white mantilla, stopping to speak to a priest who has paused to take refreshment, the verso plain, fitted with a cream silk and metal thread tassel, contained in a carved wooden fan box lined in blue silk and bearing the retailer’s name of H. Bach, Madrid, guard approx. 11 inches or 28cm; a mid-19th century wood fan, the gorge clouté in silver, the guards set with shaped cut steel beads, the double paper leaf printed and hand coloured with bullfighting scenes recto/verso, the reserves of particular interest with detailed depictions of the crowd in their finery, their arrival in carriages and on horseback, many ladies carrying fans, fitted with a pink silk tassel, guard approx. 10.5 inches or 26.5cm; and a 20th century floral tourist fan with the retailer’s label for Barcelona (3)
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A circa 1880’s Mother of Pearl fan with double black silk leaf painted with a Spanish scene of a couple out for a stroll, the lady wearing a white mantilla, stopping to speak to a priest who has paused to take refreshment, the verso plain, fitted with a cream silk and metal thread tassel, contained in a carved wooden fan box lined in blue silk and bearing the retailer’s name of H. Bach, Madrid, guard approx. 11 inches or 28cm; a mid-19th century wood fan, the gorge clouté in silver, the guards set with shaped cut steel beads, the double paper leaf printed and hand coloured with bullfighting scenes recto/verso, the reserves of particular interest with detailed depictions of the crowd in their finery, their arrival in carriages and on horseback, many ladies carrying fans, fitted with a pink silk tassel, guard approx. 10.5 inches or 26.5cm; and a 20th century floral tourist fan with the retailer’s label for Barcelona (3)
